Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaged in massive property destruction, and we believe the struggle should be soldier-to-soldier combat. But a lot of people have been killed, ordinary African men, women and children attacked by the [Rhodesian] Selous Scouts, who try to terrorize the population into not supporting the freedom fighters. Two days ago, 23 people were burned in their huts, and the Rhodesians said the freedom fighters did it and pointed to the Communist-made weapons. But you know a weapon responds to any finger...
...many people crowded the banks of the Charles River in Boston, where the high was 102°, that it seemed like any summer Sunday afternoon; actually it was midnight last Wednesday, and the beantowners were just looking for some late-night relief. But not in the city's "Combat Zone," where one prostitute lamented her lack of trade: "They don't want to do it now-it's too hot. They all want air conditioning. You think I got air conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures...
...general, males are the high rollers in the sex game. They take greater risks than females (death in combat over a female, exclusion from breeding by a stronger male), but they also have more to gain (spreading their genes far and wide). Still males have one overpowering disadvantage-they can never be sure that the offspring are their own. A cuckolded male is a biological loser, tricked into investing his time and energy in another male's genes. Thus sexual jealousy evolved among monogamous males as an adaptation. So did courtship rituals. By monopolizing a female's time...
...years ago, the Eritrean forces had no vehicles at all; they relied on hundreds of camels for transporting supplies and ammunition and for evacuating their wounded. Today they have trucks, Land Rovers, an ambulance and two tanks, most of them hijacked from the Ethiopians. The Eritreans have learned to combat Ethiopian airpower effectively with everything from rifles and machine guns to captured missiles and conventional antiaircraft guns. In the territory they control, the rebels run schools, clinics, plantations and even small factories. At present, they are engaged in an all-out offensive to capture what they do not yet control...
...held up as a model in his seminal Without Marx or Jesus. Stalinism is just the opposite: a retreat from modernity into a hard shell of suspicion and ignorance. Despite its grim tone, Revel's ebulliently argued book is meant to be a reminder of how best to combat Stalinism: with at least two - if not three - cheers for democracy...